Masterful Meetings
(In-Person, Virtual & Hybrid)
The Managing Me suite of core courses:
New!
On-line, on-demand:
Pay Your Priorities First
How to carve out more time for the strategic priorities that will most help you grow and succeed.
Planning & Prioritizing for Change
How to manage your priorities, time and energy in the new game of hybrid work and constant change.
Planning & Prioritizing for Change: Leader’s Version
How to get out of the weeds and carve out more time for your strategic priorities. Leading Self in order to better Lead others.
Preventing Burnout
Practical strategies to help busy, time-crunched people prevent burnout.
Other Programs:
Masterful Meetings (Virtual, In-Person & Hybrid)
Making our Meetings Engaging & Productive.
Strategic Thinking
Tools & techniques to help you spark innovation, achieve better results and turn challenge into opportunity.
Managing Expectations & Negotiating Priorities
How to prioritize, and when necessary, diplomatically negotiate some incoming demands on your time.
Mastering the Mental Game of Resilience
Easy to implement best practices to help you stay energized, resilient and focused.
Taming the Email Monster
More Control. Less Stress.
Making our Meetings Engaging & Productive.
This session provides best practices that will help everyone have a more engaging, more productive meeting experience – In-person, virtual or hybrid. It supplements traditional meeting management strategies with a focus on managing the meeting conversation.
The virtual version of this course is 90-120 minutes & the in-person version is 2-3 hours.
Getting Better at Meeting Preparation.
- Reviewing best practices for meeting preparation (including how to create a good meeting agenda) to ensure alignment, input and clear outcomes.
- How to get more consistent with making time to prepare your own meetings (leading by example) and how to diplomatically nudge others to do the same.
- (If done as a team) Discussing Meeting “Rules of Engagement” – an agreed upon set of guidelines to support everyone in making meetings more effective and reducing wasted meeting time.
Making our meetings more engaging for everyone.
- Connecting. Understanding how taking the time to connect is the key to trust, engagement and collaboration (resisting the pressure to “get down to business” too quickly) and strategies to build a meaningful connect into your meetings.
- Meeting Presence. “What Leaders bring to the meeting is what’s allowed in the meeting” (Brene Brown). An easy, yet impactful exercise to help you bring a meeting presence that will contribute to a positive, productive meeting.
- The Power of good questions (and good listening). How to talk less, engage more and avoid “crickets” by crafting good questions that elicit meaningful responses in a short period of time.
- Using Technology to your advantage and engaging better through the effective use of chat and visual tools.
- 3 Options to help make your “hybrid” meetings (some participants in-person, other participants remote) more inclusive.
Reducing Unnecessary Meeting Time.
- How to diplomatically negotiate and push back on some low priority meeting time. (The “next 10 meeting” exercise.)
- Practices to support everyone in reducing some unnecessary meeting time – challenging the one hour default, distinguishing between required and optional participants.
- Tips to help you block off – and hold on to – some “meeting free” buffer room in your calendar so that you can get other stuff done.
Optional: Your Team Huddle. A template for structuring your team huddle.
- 4 Key Components to help you design your ideal team huddle.
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